Lewd vandal leaves greasy imprints on Neb. town
VALENTINE, Neb. (AP) -- Boy, how people here wish their busiest vandal would find another way to make his mark. Beginning more than a year ago, some man has been skipping from one business to another at night, pressing his naked behind - sometimes his groin, sometimes both - on windows. Store owners, church workers and school janitors have had to wash lotion and petroleum jelly off the windows he selects....

Man bills Michigan town $156 for cleaning bathroom
SAUGATUCK, Mich. (AP) -- A businessman said he was so frustrated with the condition of a public bathroom in the western Michigan tourist town of Saugatuck that he cleaned it himself, and billed the city $156 for his work....

Man accused of firing gun in dispute over plants
HUDSON, Fla. (AP) -- Authorities say a 62-year-old man fired a gun and chased his neighbor with a machete after two arguments over watering plants on Tuesday....

Woman fends off burglars with musical instrument
SEYMOUR, Tenn. (AP) -- A woman who lives near the Smoky Mountains used a musical instrument to scare away two men who broke into her home. The Knoxville News Sentinel quoted a Sevier County Sheriff's Office report that stated the victim awoke to find two men in her home in Seymour on Saturday morning. Her child was asleep in the home....

Man suspected of sausage and spice attack set free
SANGER, Calif. (AP) -- A man suspected of breaking into the home of two California farmworkers, rubbing spices into the face of one man and smacking another with an 8-inch sausage has been set free....

Good girl! NYC pooch comes to sick neighbor's aid
NEW YORK (AP) -- A fluffy little dog named Lexi is being called a hero for helping to rescue an 85-year-old neighbor who collapsed in his Brooklyn apartment....

Teacher OK after crashing into bear on a bicycle

Mouth to Meow-th: Mass. firefighter revives cat
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) -- A lucky cat owes one of its nine lives to a firefighter who revived it with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Al Machado rescued the cat from a burning apartment Tuesday, telling The Standard Times of New Bedford that he saw immediately that it needed air....

Australian minister resigns over semi-naked dance
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- An Australian state government minister was forced to quit following reports that he danced in his underwear at a parliamentary office party, the state premier said Thursday....

Ind. city looks for time capsule that time forgot
ELKHART, Ind. (AP) -- Call it the time capsule that time forgot....